Is there a Letterboxd for books, music and TV?

What makes Letterboxd work?

It's worth spelling out, because it's the checklist for any alternative. You log a film with the date you watched it. You rate it in half stars and add a few words if you want to. It all builds into a diary, you make lists, and you follow friends whose taste you trust. The catalogue underneath is good enough that you rarely have to add anything by hand.

An app that does those things for another medium is what people mean by "Letterboxd for X". Here's where each one stands.

Is there a Letterboxd for books?

Goodreads is the biggest name, with a huge catalogue and years of reader reviews. The StoryGraph is the one most often recommended instead: it tracks what you read, shows stats about your reading, and suggests books by mood and pace. Hardcover is a newer book tracker that comes up in the same conversations. Both can bring in a Goodreads library, so you don't lose your history by switching.

Whichever you choose, the habits matter more than the app. How to keep a reading log covers what to write down and how to remember what you read.

Is there a Letterboxd for music?

For albums, Musicboard is the closest match: you rate and review albums, make lists and follow other people. Rate Your Music is older and deeper, a vast database where people rate albums and browse charts and lists. It's brilliant for digging, less so as a diary.

Last.fm comes up too, but it does something different. It records every track you play, automatically. That's a listening history rather than a log of the albums that mattered, and the two work well side by side. The albums guide goes into how.

Is there a Letterboxd for TV shows?

Serializd is built for TV and is the app most often called a Letterboxd for shows: you can rate and review whole series, seasons or episodes. Trakt tracks both TV and films, and can follow what you watch automatically through some media players.

TV Time used to be the big one, until it shut down in July 2026. If you used it, this guide to tracking TV covers what to do with your history and how to keep your place in a series.

And for gigs and concerts?

Setlist.fm is the reference for what was played at a concert, and it lets you mark the shows you went to. Concert Archives is built for listing every concert you've been to. Both are useful for pinning down dates from years ago, which the gig guide walks through.

Gigs are the thing most tracking apps leave out, so if live music matters to you, check for it first.

One app or five?

Dedicated apps go deeper. Their catalogues are tuned to one medium, and their communities are full of people who care about exactly that thing. If you only log books, a book app is the right call.

The cost shows up when you care about more than one. Five apps means five habits, and most people keep one going and let the rest drift. You also lose the links between things: the novel and its adaptation, the gig and the album you played all winter after it. Is there one app to log films, books and music? goes through what a single log should do well.

There's a middle way too: a dedicated app for the medium you care about most, and one general log for everything else. That's two habits rather than five, and you can change your mind later.

Where does artsvibe fit?

artsvibe logs films, series, albums, books and gigs in one place. Each entry gets a half-star rating, a line in your own words and the date, and it all lands in one diary, month by month. Your shelf keeps your place in what you're watching and reading, and your profile is a pixel-art room for your favourites.

It doesn't cover games, podcasts or theatre, and it's a separate app with no connection to Letterboxd. It's coming soon to iPhone and Android, and the FAQ has the details.